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Visual DDoS Representation and Its Ramifications

Posted by Zonk on from the seeing-things-helps-to-understand-them dept.

winterbc writes "Prolexic has a report on Zombie infections that bring a visual representation of a DDoS attack. Besides being a rather cool picture, it brings to mind a possible future of personal computing. I would love to see a real-time picture of my 'net connections as my desktop picture, allowing me to change my 'net habits based on what I see. For example, I can download new images from the OPTE Project and set my desktop that way, but a more individual pathway highlighted with my favorite color could happen someday. My point is that while DDoS are painfully ubiquitous today, tomorrow visual mapping in real-time could be a path to the source of the problem."

2 of 104 comments (clear)

  1. Visual DDoS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the a new programming language from Microsoft?

  2. Neat! by failure-man · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can it build a map for a /.ing?

    Also, it's nice to see that, for once, a story on Slashdot uses "its" correctly.